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It will be seen, therefore, that for five years in succession there 
has been grown at the Experiment Station several varigties of 
sorghum, which, upon analysis, were found to contain a much 
higher content of sugar than the average quoted above, as found 
in Louisiana sugar cane, and there would appear, therefore, to be 
good reason to hope for success in Central New York, where 
now, for so many years, sorghum has been grown and made into 
syrups of various degrees of excellence, according to the intelli- 
gence and skill of the manufacturer. 
The Work of the Station and its Needs. 
In order that the necessary demands made upon the Station 
may be properly met there is need of increased facilities; both 
men and money are needed to carry forward the work which, 
perhaps, needs no better evidence of its practical value than is 
given in the very rapid increase in the number of those who 
apply for the bulletins which, from time to time, present the 
results of our investigations in the different lines of agricultural] 
science. 
Within five years the Bulletin mailing list has increased from 
about 500 to 15,000, and not a mail is received which does not add 
to the number of those who wish for this information, and yet, 
large as is this number, it means but one Bulletin to every twenty- 
five of the farmers.of the State. 
The labor and expense involved in the publication of this 
large edition is, however, so great, that unless some ample provi- 
sion shall be made _ to supply this, it is obvious that the Station 
can not continue to meet the reasonable demands of the people, 
Hundreds of letters from every section of the State could be 
produced as appreciative evidence of their very great value to 
the farming community. 
The New York State Grange annually appoints as one of the 
standing committees, three members to visit and report upon the 
Experiment Station at Geneva, and at the recent annual’ meeting 
of the grange this committee made an extended and highly com- 
mendatory report of what they learned during an entire day 
spent in personal inspection of the work of the station. In this 
report they say : 
“Your committee went to Geneva imbued with the idea to 
determine if the Station, from a financial standpoint, that is, if it | 

